The grafters of America, who they are and how they work . Oska M. Stone. 334 THE ADVENTURES AND WORK other wires in such an intricate manner that none but aclever expert could discover them. At places the wiresseemed to stop suddenly. Then they would appear again,doubling back over the same road the investigators hadtrailed them. The experts who accompanied Wooidridge on this subterraneantrip declared they hadnever seen so clever ajob of wiring. On another of hisraids Wooidridge en-tered the fake pool-room where the suck-er was supposed toinvest his money tofind Donaldson sit-ting calmly amid
The grafters of America, who they are and how they work . Oska M. Stone. 334 THE ADVENTURES AND WORK other wires in such an intricate manner that none but aclever expert could discover them. At places the wiresseemed to stop suddenly. Then they would appear again,doubling back over the same road the investigators hadtrailed them. The experts who accompanied Wooidridge on this subterraneantrip declared they hadnever seen so clever ajob of wiring. On another of hisraids Wooidridge en-tered the fake pool-room where the suck-er was supposed toinvest his money tofind Donaldson sit-ting calmly amid hisbunch of these men, whoare in reality cleverenough as actors tohold their own on thedramatic stage, wavedtheir hands frantic-ally, shouted out betsand eddied and surged about the man who was recordingtheir bets, old man Donaldson, looking for all the worldlike three hundred pounds of human benevolence, hiscigars ranged alongside of him and a fatherly smile uponhis white-bearded countenance, calmly surveyed Archie Donaldson. OF A DETECTIVE B85 so good at his His very front, his beaming eye, his long flowing-white beard and his monstrous bulk were enough to in-spire confidence, said Wooldridge. It almost seemedlike a shame to arrest him—he wasgame. Not always in or-der to beat the racesby holding up the re-sult until the conspir-ators can get theirmoney wagered dothe wire tappers ap-ply their talents. Oneof the most elaboratesystems of tappedwires ever found byWooldridge and hismen in their numer-ous raids was devisedto serve Board ofTrade quotations tothe bucket shops. Itwas early in Novem-ber, 1903, that Woold-ridge got scent of the system, which he at once recognized as the work of Stone. Five offices were raided in one day and one of theprisoners held as an associate of this king of the wire tap-pers was a woman. The combination,- which was provedto be an extensive scheme to defraud the Western Union
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